1919

to Moscow at a distance up to 200 versts from it (his village 
is 180 versts from Moscow). We have grain, it is said, and we 
have surpluses too.
Winter time has supposedly been lost, but even after sowing (ends 
around St. Nicholas's day) there will remain free time of about 
1 month (until manure transport—about a week before St. Peter's day). This 
time must be used, it is said.
It is necessary urgently, immediately to gather information and data 
and, if there is even the slightest 
chance, to implement this measure, 
for there will be no supplies from the east.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

24790

TELEGRAM TO THE RECTOR OF VORONEZH 
STATE UNIVERSITY

No earlier than 7 April 1919

No 
delays whatsoever are possible. The decree of the Council 
of Defense must be executed immediately.*

Chairman of the Council of Defense
Lenin

Printed from the orig­
inal signed by
V. I. Lenin.

* The following decree of the Council of Defense of 7 April 1919 is meant: "In view of the extremely acute need for medical personnel for the Red Army, immediately discharge all fifth-year medical students and conscript them for military service with mandatory departure to the front no later than 10 April of this year" ("Izvestia" No. 76, 9 April 1919).

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2 1587

TELEGRAM TO THE KNYAGININSKOE UEZD DEPARTMENT, 
KNYAGININSKOE SECOND RIVER SOCIETY

8 April 1919

Any measures whatsoever of coercion for the transition of peasants to communal cultivation of fields are impermissible. Non-
compliance with this will be punished with all the severity of revolutionary law.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

Printed from the orig­
inal signed by
V. I. Lenin.

24390

TELEGRAM TO MILITARY COMMISSAR OF ARMY VI, KUZMIN

Vologda or Plesetskaya, at place of location
8 April 1919

Your telegrams to me create the impression of deception on the part of the English. Therefore, I, while in no way prejudging the orders of your military command, request on my part that you strengthen surveillance and vigilance by all means, and likewise take care to strengthen our offensive operations*.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

* Military Commissar of Army VI reported in a telegram of 5 April: "Our reconnaissance picked up a note near the village of Maksimovskaya, 60 versts north of Shenkursk: 'Comrades, we beg you not to advance and not to shoot, for we are mobilized and are under the yoke, as in olden times... We cannot desert—everything is taken from deserters and their families must suffer for it.' I request that this note be made public and a protest be lodged. When Shenkursk was taken, I released about 200 mobilized prisoners we had captured—there were no reprisals whatsoever."
On this telegram there is a question from V. I. Lenin to the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs: "What was done? What was given to Rosta?" (Archive of IMEL, No. 24385).